Social media has been a strong tool on helping people in exchanging information. For some, social has been playing a huge part unto their everyday lives. We cannot deny the fact that it did take over us at some point, well how can you escape it with the worlds fast advancement in technology. A world where we cannot live without it. With the rising power technology, the information is getting easier to access, with just a tiny bit of effort exerting from our brain, we can easily find what we need by the help of social media.
Social media might help the family in a good and bad way, either way it’s impact is felt ever since. Social media has been the channel for both family members. Like for example, when your parents are abroad, you can easily contact them and communicate with them as long as you want, but social media has also played an important role in giving out information about calamities to the planet. As for my experience, when typhoon Haiyan or what you called Yolanda shattered the place of Tacloban, I was one of the survivor of that storm, I could say that it was through Facebook message that my mom texted me about something before the typhoon struck us, it was really unfortunate that the signal was cut because of the typhoon. Another example is that the Philippine TV news can easily post news on the social media so that other families who doesn’t watch or they don’t have television, they can confirm the news on the social media, and there are lots of people to be asked there.
As I mentioned, the government has been using the social media to post articles about the current issues bit just in the country but around the globe. An example of it is the Facebook page of GMA news, they inform people there about certain things and especially when the weather has been not that good, they update people there for they know that people would be visiting them. Another thing, they share information such as what to do such thing in case a calamity happens. With this help, there may be less casualty because of social media.
With our advance technology, we ourselves can easily share information by the help of social media. Unlike before, we still need to pay a money so that the information you want to share is to be shared. And it’s on TV, Radio, Newspaper. But not everyone is satisfied to watch the news, or others are too lazy, or they don’t give time to listen to radio or even read the newspaper. That’s why its really a huge and a very important thing that happened. We might not see it’s improvement, but we can clearly see that we feel the change from the past until now and in the future. So whether it changes the future or not, it’s part of survival and we must do it as long as we can for that’s what a human being is. Change to survive or change others to survive.
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